無常＿[mujo]
My practice has always drawn from a long and wide range of art history.
This exhibition comprises a series of oil paintings depicting a range of motifs. Through the conscious use of muted colours, loose impasto brushwork and planimetric composition, the paintings assimilate a variety of traditional modes and genres.
"Solid rocks ripple with surprising moments of colour and cast unexpected shadows, fabric floats and gestures in the light, spheres shimmer with obscured reflections. The line between representation and abstraction is blurred and moments of colour emerge as the viewer moves about the works. Never fully revealing themselves, the paintings change, speak different things, depending on where the viewer looks from and interacts with them. These moments are what Elderton seeks to capture – a fleeting feeling, mysterious, inspiring and ephemeral."
– Cameron Ralston, City Art Reader
複合拍子＿Polyrhythmic Wave, oil on canvas, 380x510mm, 2023
波の呼吸＿Stone and Undulation, oil on canvas, 1220x1220mm, 2023
無常＿Transience, oil on canvas, 300x400mm, 2023
"At the heart of Richard Elderton’s paintings over the past three years has been his engagement with the very nature and reality of painting as an experience about subject and materials. The notion of 'landscape' is scrutinised, outwardly seemingly familiar and knowable, Elderton’s paintings on first encounter, reassure our expectations, yet inevitably they unsettle such assumption. Indeed, he comments that it is 'as if the surface of the painting is one and the same as the represented reality.'"
– Warren Feeney, ArtBeat Magazine
